John L. Mica

First the good news. The House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that should improve Amtrak service on the heavily traveled Northeast Corridor, and calls for a study of high-speed rail service on the 450-mile corridor between Boston and New York. Now the bad news. As presented Wednesday, the high-speed train would make no stops in Connecticut. This bad idea may have been squashed in its infancy. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy immediately objected, saying such a plan would be "dead on arrival." U.S. Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., author of the amendment creating the high-speed service study, told The Connecticut Mirror that he was open to adding another stop, possibly in Connecticut....

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